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An immortal fumble by Ken Tucker (10-Oct-2007)

"I am a general relativity expert, but how does one calculate an integral?"
> Two points here: If Daryl is computing the
> elapsed time on Ken's clock, and Daryl is
> using an inertial coordinate system, then
> he doesn't need any Gammas. The answer, as
> I said is just this: the time tau on Ken's
> clock as a function of Daryl's coordinate t
> is given by:
>
>    tau = Integral of square-root(1-(v/c)^2) dt

"v" is not constant, a=dv/dt is not constant.
How will you do an "integral" if "v" is variable?
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